Lump on back of infant's neck

My 3 mo DS has this hard lump towards the bottom of his neck, right side.
It kind of feels like those fatty deposits dogs get (our 1 dog has several
of them so I know what they feel like). DH feels it's caused from DS always
having his head turned to the right when he sleeps and feeds. He thinks
maybe it's the muscle all knotted up. Any thoughts?

-L....

If your son always has his head in one postition, you need to correct
that, and make sure he is held and sleeps in many postitons. Otherwise
he could develop positional plagiocephaly:
Our son had it when we adopted him, as the foster care Mom always laid
him on his right side for the first month of his life. It can be hard
to correct. My son still has a bit of assemetry to his head. Look at
the top of your baby's head/skull and see if the skull is assemetric at
all. If not, you have caught it in time.

My son also had a small lump at the back of his neck on the right side.
I don't know if this was a lymph node as the doctor suspected or
because of the positional plagiocephaly. It eventually went away.

Good luck to you!

Nikki...

Can he lift his head up straight at all? If not, it could be muscles. You
might want to ask your ped about infant toriticollis next time you see
him/her. I thought Ben had it. You can gently work with him to get his
head to tilt the other direction sometimes too. It might also just be the
shape of his head. Brock looked like he has muscle knots but now that he is
a little older you can tell it is just the shape.